Corteva Agriscience, an agriculture firm that provides hybrid seeds, crop protection and digital solutions to farmers, has developed insect control solutions for maize farmers in Africa to control ...

Crop scientists have advised farm operators to increase monitoring of their gardens and timely apply pesticides to minimise damages by invasive African armyworm. The fall armyworm is a destructive ...

They may be tiny but they grow into a mighty army of pests. Fall army worms (FAW) continue to be a bane to corn farming and its production in Ghana after invading the country 8 years ago. Originally ...

Infestation of the fall armyworm (FAW), a destructive pest, has been reported in several parts of Himachal Pradesh, posing a serious threat to maize crops and causing concern among farmers across ...

Samuel Keter, a farmer in Sabtet villege in Rongai whose 15-acre maize plantation has been adversely affected by fall army worms. [Photo By: Caroline Chebet] The Cereal Growers Association has warned ...

In 2019, Christophe Rwisumbura, a farmer from Nasho Sector in Nyagatare District, lost 65 per cent of his maize harvest, estimated at around seven tonnes , due to fall armyworms that had broken out ...

Strap: Caution against attack of insect-pests on vegetable crop too Tribune News Service Ludhiana, July 4 Experts from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) have cautioned farmers against the attack of ...

A joint initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the governments of China and Kenya to promote biological alternatives to chemical pesticides in tackling fall armyworm is yielding ...

A team of scientists from the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Sirugamani, and officials of the Agriculture Department, inspected some of the maize fields affected by Fall Armyworm, an invasive pest, in ...

While the pest has only been in Australia since 2020, it poses a threat to feed supplies especially for dairy farmers who rely on maize as a feed source especially in northern NSW and Queensland. But ...